Robin Gee
Robin Gee holds an MFA in Contemporary Dance Choreography and Performance from Sarah
Lawrence College and specializes in African, Caribbean, and Modern dance techniques.
She is a Professor at UNC Greensboro where she teaches African and Modern dance as
well as the Screen Dance curriculum. Her choreographic works have appeared in the
North Carolina Dance Festival, Dumbo Arts, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, as well as
resident works mounted on various colleges and universities around the world.
She is the recipient of the West African Research Association's Post Doctoral Fellowship
in African Research, the Central Piedmont Artist's Hub Grant for her work on dance
and music in West Africa. Most recently she is the recipient of the American Association
of University Women's Post Doctoral Research Award (2006 - 2007) for her work on The
Mande Legacy, a dance documentation project for which spent six months in Guinea in
2007 and the Fulbright Award for her Research in Burkina Faso in 2013. In 2021 Gee
was awarded a Fulbright Specialist Award to travel to Cabo Verde to conduct a Curricular
Assessment for inclusion in the Fulbright Scholars Program.
In 2006, Ms. Gee also formed her own company Sugarfoote Productions, a multipurpose
service organization designed to expose communities to the myriad expressions evident
in African art and to help local audiences experience the richness of African and
Diasporan cultural traditions. Sugarfoote also co-produces the Greensboro Dance Film
Festival, a boutique dance film festival screening films from around the world.
Ms. Gee's own dance films have currently screened in 27 film festivals worldwide and
include: Dance Film Screenings: Wanting (2018) Aphrodite Film Festival; Indie Boom;
Global Film Festival; Central States Indie Fest; L.I.M.P.A Festival; Adirondack Film
Festival; Festival InternationalVideodanza; Movimiento de Movimientos; CKF International
Festival; PRISMA Dance Fest; Independent Shorts Awards; Frame x Frame Film Festival;
Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne. NCDF Moving Movers, Screendance
in the Landscape (Scotland); Studio Faire Program (France).
School of Theatre & Dance
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